Institutional police response
IN the past year, there has been a record spike in attacks by the TTP and Baloch separatists on Pakistan’s law-enforcement agencies. Over this period, more than 100 policemen were…
The TTP threat
The TTP’s return to the capital last week should not come as a surprise. The warning signs have been growing in intensity since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Through political statements, protests…
Deadly symbiosis
TERRORISM is theatre, and the internet a stage where terrorists can perform certain roles. For example, while executing a terrorist attack, planners also want to use it to attract an…
Autoimmunity
IN medical terminology, autoimmunity is “a condition in which the body’s immune system mistakes its own healthy tissues as foreign and attacks them”. In other words, it is an attack…
Writing about ideas
The history of ideas is an interesting field; you traverse from concepts to definitions to ideas to philosophies – and the universe before you appears to be unending. It is…
How to dismantle the terror trifecta
After the events of 9/11 and the US-led intervention in Afghanistan, more than a dozen military operations were undertaken to eradicate terrorism from Pakistan. Now, the latest surge in terrorism…
External-internal conundrums
Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has demanded in a press conference that the Afghan Taliban government arrest, prosecute and hand over the terrorists of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) based on…
Terror issues
The alleged suicide attack, due to which five Chinese citizens and a Pakistani driver lost their lives, is most terrible, horrific and condemnable. At the government level, the prime minister…
Ides of March
Beware the Ides of March. This well-known quotation was, we know, the warning given to Julius Caesar, in Shakespeare’s play, by a soothsayer. It referred to a date: March 15.…
How to fight fake news
A couple of years ago, a clip from an Indian soap went viral on social media. The clip shows the ‘ideal’ Indian bahu washing her husband’s laptop (literally) with a…
